Gavin
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #10,312 · #303 for boys in 2025, 1,125 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 11,752 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 18 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 189,270since 1913
Gavin over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #303 | 1,125 | |
| 2024 | — | #255 | 1,384 | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #232 | 1,515 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #206 | 1,798 |
| 2021 | — | #174 | 2,216 | |
| 2020 | — | #142 | 2,589 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #128 | 3,013 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #111 | 3,475 |
| 2017 | — | #96 | 4,159 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #80 | 4,944 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #70 | 5,794 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #61 | 6,622 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #50 | 7,422 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #40 | 8,260 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #37 | 9,016 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #38 | 9,626 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | #33 | 10,742 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | #30 | 11,752 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 | #32 | 11,863 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | #38 | 10,479 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #47 | 9,340 |
| 2004 | #2,889 | 55 | #52 | 8,610 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #51 | 8,764 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #61 | 6,951 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #78 | 5,260 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #85 | 4,686 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #101 | 3,659 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #116 | 3,195 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #136 | 2,758 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #192 | 1,633 |
| 1995 | — | #242 | 1,193 | |
| 1994 | — | #257 | 1,121 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #294 | 945 |
| 1992 | — | #266 | 1,067 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #302 | 849 |
| 1990 | — | #294 | 860 | |
| 1989 | — | #360 | 629 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #370 | 544 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #326 | 630 |
| 1986 | — | #355 | 535 | |
| 1985 | — | #352 | 522 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #355 | 513 |
| 1983 | — | #291 | 690 | |
| 1982 | — | #368 | 477 | |
| 1981 | — | #358 | 492 | |
| 1980 | — | #443 | 350 | |
| 1979 | — | #459 | 317 | |
| 1978 | — | #403 | 366 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #460 | 303 |
| 1976 | — | #438 | 317 | |
| 1975 | — | #493 | 261 | |
| 1974 | — | #485 | 270 | |
| 1973 | — | #513 | 232 | |
| 1972 | — | #603 | 174 | |
| 1971 | — | #546 | 218 | |
| 1970 | — | #563 | 207 | |
| 1969 | — | #523 | 223 | |
| 1968 | — | #548 | 189 | |
| 1967 | — | #571 | 173 | |
| 1966 | — | #614 | 147 | |
| 1965 | — | #599 | 161 | |
| 1964 | — | #629 | 152 | |
| 1963 | — | #616 | 159 | |
| 1962 | — | #624 | 154 | |
| 1961 | — | #720 | 113 | |
| 1960 | — | #764 | 100 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,019 | 57 | |
| 1958 | — | #892 | 71 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,278 | 37 | |
| 1956 | — | #924 | 65 | |
| 1955 | — | #957 | 61 | |
| 1954 | — | #829 | 76 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,139 | 42 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,195 | 38 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,344 | 30 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,395 | 27 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,462 | 25 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,487 | 24 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,394 | 28 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,509 | 22 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,009 | 12 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,988 | 13 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,231 | 6 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,730 | 17 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,685 | 17 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,983 | 13 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,326 | 10 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,828 | 15 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,929 | 14 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,997 | 13 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,922 | 15 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,270 | 13 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,298 | 13 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,074 | 15 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,193 | 14 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,641 | 11 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,446 | 12 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,486 | 12 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,152 | 15 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,459 | 12 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,973 | 16 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #2,732 | 9 | |
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| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,101 | 10 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Gavin! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Gavin
- 48 spots since 2024 (#255 → #303)
- 161 spots since 2020 (#142 → #303)
- 233 spots since 2015 (#70 → #303)
- Biggest jump: 386 spots in 1958 (#1,278 → #892)
- Biggest drop: 354 spots in 1957 (#924 → #1,278)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2008 at #30 (11,752 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 18 yrs · run 2000–2017
- Top 1,000: 70 yrs · run 1960–2025
- Highest: 1 in 174 boys born in 2008 were named Gavin (0.58%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,518 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 46.7% of all boys named Gavin (88,447) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 49 | #1,973 (1919) | #2,450 |
| 1920s | 124 | #2,074 (1926) | #2,427 |
| 1930s | 113 | #1,828 (1937) | #2,330 |
| 1940s | 177 | #1,394 (1947) | #1,848 |
| 1950s | 504 | #829 (1954) | #1,097 |
| 1960s | 1,571 | #523 (1969) | #621 |
| 1970s | 2,665 | #403 (1978) | #496 |
| 1980s | 5,382 | #291 (1983) | #358 |
| 1990s | 17,280 | #101 (1999) | #220 |
| 2000s | 88,447 | #30 (2008) | #51 |
| 2010s | 62,331 | #37 (2011) | #71 |
| 2020s | 10,627 | #142 (2020) | #219 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gavin in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 148,133 of them was named Gavin, which outranked 53.5% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,701Zuriel13
- #8,701Zyair13
- #8,701Zyann13
- #9,231Gavin12
- #9,231Aamani12
- #9,231Aasiya12
- #9,231Abeer12
- #9,790Aasha11
- #9,790Abbigal11
- #9,790Abri11
Tied with 558 names at #9,231; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 199 of them was named Gavin, which outranked 99.7% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.